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Yigal and Larissa: to be together in the flesh at last
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners October 20, 2006 |
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Israeli authorities have agreed to allow Yigal Amir to receive conjugal visits in prison so that he and his wife can try to start a family, Israeli media reported Friday.
The reports said that the Shin Bet security agency had determined that Amir, serving a life sentence without parole for the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, did not pose a threat to the public and should be allowed to consummate his two-year-old marriage.
Minister of Defense Amir Peretz expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision. "It is unbelievable that restrictions have been eased for the murderer of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin," he said.
Amir married Larissa Trimbobler by proxy in 2004 and in June this year the Israeli Supreme Court upheld their right to conceive, but limited their efforts to artificial insemination because the Prisons Service opposed allowing them conjugal visits. Israel Radio and Israeli Army Radio said Friday that the Shin Bet had advised prison authorities to drop the ban, saying that Amir had moderated his political views and was not at present a threat to the public.
Amir, a Jew, was convicted of killing Rabin in an attempt to stop the handover of land in Israeli-Palestinian peace deals. The assassination was a major blow to peace efforts.
Trimbobler is a divorced mother of four. She immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union more than a decade ago, and has been visiting Amir in prison every two weeks for several years.
AP contributed to this report.
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